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Using Information to Improve Distributor Performance
Jean SrneczSr. Vice President, MerchandisingBaker & Taylor
Using Information to Improve Distributor Performance
Shorter Life Cycles
Higher Consumer Expectations
Technological Changes
Our World:
Using Information to Improve Distributor Performance
“Supply chain management is a set of approaches usedto efficiently integrate suppliers, manufacturers,warehouses and stores so that merchandise is producedand distributed in the right quantities, to the right locations,and at the right time in order to minimize system-widecosts while satisfying service level requirements.”1
1Managing the Supply Chain by David SimchiLevi, Paul Kaminsky, Edith SimchiLeviMcGraw Hill
Using Information to Improve Distributor Performance
Acquire what is saleable Research available BookscanTM POS iPageTM
Title SourceTM
For the Library Market Pub AlleyTM
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Develop Forecast: A single version of the truthInputs
• Editorial• Marketing• Sales• ‘Supply Chain’ / ‘Inventory Management’ ‘The New
Gods’• Customers - all flavors
– Independent – Non-Traditional – Chain – Distributor– On-Line – Library – Price Club – Regional Chain
Supply Chain
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Model Titles - Overall “Sister” Profiles Track record with intelligence
By Account
By Promotion
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Time Dimensions
How Many / How Long
Work with Accounts on Time Series Forecast
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New Titles Understand the forecast model
How developedHow long
Replenishment Understand how each of your partners drives
replenishmentSalesDemand
Promotional DemandAnticipationRamping down
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Forecast (Demand)Order frequency (Order cycle)Lead timeCase packVendor minimum (Order policy)Service Level (Safety Stock)Seasonality
Replenishment Basics
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Maximize SalesMinimize Returns
Lead time is the gunk that clouds the window on forecasts.
Lead time is what discourages the sales on deep catalog.
Lead Time
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RETURN % INCREASES WITH LEADTIME INCREASE
10-12 13-15 16-19 20-23 24-27 28-31 32+
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TURN DECREASES AS LEADTIME INCREASES
10-12 13-15 16-19 20-23 24-27 28-31 32+
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Lead Time Release Order EDI Pick-up EDI To Warehouse Warehouse Schedule Shipping
Hold for pick-upHold for full truckLTL (Less than load)
Receipt Stow/Available for Sale
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New ReleasesBacklistChildren’sSeasonalPictorial
Importance of Publisher Internal Lead Time
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Double inventory on a title gets 99% of sales
Reduce inventory on a title by 40%, get 90% of sales
Invest inventory in other titles get that 90%
Inventory Managers Paradox
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Get reprints done in 4 weeks!Standardize trim size if it improves turn-
aroundKeep back list alive, funding/purchasing
patterns are irregularReview grant of rights
Children’s/Picturebook
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Promotional Most front list behaves as a ‘promotion’
Backlist Requires a good forecast:
Quantity and time dimension
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Reverse distribution Rate of Sale Rate of Replenishment ‘Let Sell Down’ Re-Investment
Returns
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What Drives Returns?
Returns as Marketing Expense?
Returns as Lost Profit?
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The ‘Forgotten’ Part of the Supply Chain: POD
POD - Top 50 Vendor for B&T in 2003 Incorporate into Supply Chain
Responsibility
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Share Information with Trading Partners Develop a single forecast Update and learn
Understand Trading Partners How they develop forecasts Operational procedures
Going Forward
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Product Design and Packaging for Operational Efficiency
Invest in Information Technology Data Warehouse Analysis Tools Make Data Analysis - “The DNA of your
Organization”Investigate Collaboration Solutions
Going Forward